Technical Interview Questions – Active Directory

1)What is Active Directory?

2)What is LDAP?
3)Can you connect Active Directory to other 3rd-
party Directory Services? Name a few options.
4)Where is the AD database held? What other
folders are related to AD?
5)What is the SYSVOL folder?
6)Name the AD NCs and replication issues for each
NC
7)What are application partitions? When do I use
them
8)How do you create a new application partition
9)How do you view replication properties for AD
partitions and DCs?
10) What is the Global Catalog?
11) How do you view all the GCs in the forest?
12) Why not make all DCs in a large forest as
GCs?
13) Trying to look at the Schema, how can I do
that?
14) What are the Support Tools? Why do I need
them?
15) What is LDP? What is REPLMON? What is
ADSIEDIT? What is NETDOM? What is
REPADMIN?
16) What are sites? What are they used for?
17) What's the difference between a site link's
schedule and interval?
18) What is the KCC?
19) What is the ISTG? Who has that role by
default?
20) What are the requirements for installing AD
on a new server?
21) What can you do to promote a server to DC if
you're in a remote location with slow WAN link?
22) How can you forcibly remove AD from a
server, and what do you do later? • Can I get
user passwords from the AD database?
23) What tool would I use to try to grab security
related packets from the wire?
24) Name some OU design considerations.
25) What is tombstone lifetime attribute?
26) What do you do to install a new Windows
2003 DC in a Windows 2000 AD?
27) What do you do to install a new Windows
2003 R2 DC in a Windows 2003 AD?
28) How would you find all users that have not
logged on since last month?
29) What are the DS* commands?
30) What's the difference between LDIFDE and
CSVDE? Usage considerations?
31) What are the FSMO roles? Who has them by
default? What happens when each one fails?
32) What FSMO placement considerations do you
know of?
33) I want to look at the RID allocation table for
a DC. What do I do?
34) What's the difference between transferring a
FSMO role and seizing one? Which one should you
NOT seize? Why?
35) How do you configure a "stand-by operation
master" for any of the roles?
36) How do you backup AD?
37) How do you restore AD?
38) How do you change the DS Restore admin
password?
39) Why can't you restore a DC that was backed
up 4 months ago?
40) What are GPOs?
41) What is the order in which GPOs are applied?
42) Name a few benefits of using GPMC.
43) What are the GPC and the GPT? Where can I
find them?
44) What are GPO links? What special things can
I do to them?
45) What can I do to prevent inheritance from
above?
46) How can I override blocking of inheritance?
47) How can you determine what GPO was and
was not applied for a user? Name a few ways to
do that.
48) A user claims he did not receive a GPO, yet
his user and computer accounts are in the right
OU, and everyone else there gets the GPO. What
will you look for?
49) Name a few differences in Vista GPOs
50) Name some GPO settings in the computer
and user parts.
51) What are administrative templates?
52) What's the difference between software
publishing and assigning?
53) Can I deploy non-MSI software with GPO?
54) You want to standardize the desktop
environments (wallpaper, My Documents, Start
menu, printers etc.) on the computers in one
department. How would you do that?